Stations Of The Cross: Obama Goes Fundie In Kentucky

15 Responses to “Stations Of The Cross: Obama Goes Fundie In Kentucky”

1. paul a'barge writes
   May 13th, 2008 8:29 am

   Why would you provide two separate links to the same URL?

2. katielenn writes
   May 13th, 2008 9:18 am

   So does this make him bitter and clingy?

3. pduggie writes
   May 13th, 2008 10:37 am

   Wow. So Obama is rewriting 1 Corinthians 13:13, which says

   “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

   Change? Instead of Love?

   I’ll take love…

4. Sean Braisted writes
   May 13th, 2008 10:52 am

   Those flyers have been around since South Carolina. They just change the web address, otherwise, they are the same (though I think he’s scrubbed ol’ Jeremiah).

5. Tom Paine writes
   May 13th, 2008 10:55 am

   I love one of the posters on the original site asking what would’ve happened if GWB made such a blatant appeal based on faith. The reality is: he did.

   Rove organized fundraising and voter turnout through a network of evangelical ministers and their congregations in 2006. In fact, there was a federal investigation of their fundraising tactics through a false-front Christian non profit organization.

   For more than a decade, I’ve been hearing pundits ask why Democrats are so afraid of talking about faith. Now, when a Democrat appears who’s not afraid of talking about faith, he gets no end of grief.

   Yes, A.C., this KY outreach effort reeks of a double standard, but it’s not the one you’re referring to.

6. DWPittelli writes
   May 13th, 2008 11:22 am

   It is unfair that the media gives Democrats a pass to use blatant religious appeals, when they criticize Republicans for similar appeals.

   But given that many people believe that Obama is a Muslim — due in part to his name, of course, but also often learning this “fact” either from emailed stories to that effect, conflating him with Congressman Keith Ellison who was sworn in on the Koran, or from more mainstream reports that one might call his elementary school a “madrassa” — I think this ad is indeed less sordid than if a politician did it without such a background.

   So the comparison to Mike Huckabee is not entirely apt.

7. submandave writes
   May 13th, 2008 11:28 am

   Tom, let’s be fair. Reaching out to faith groups and churches for support and donations is not unique to either party. But I honestly can’t ever recall any picture of Bush speaking form the pulpit coupled with words about doing “the Lord’s work” and given a soft focus, shot from a low angle to make him look lofty and holy. If you can find an equivalently blatant piece of campaign literature please provide.

8. Jajo writes
   May 13th, 2008 11:29 am

   Perhaps Obama “gets no end of grief” because he has managed to simultaneously dismiss religious voters and pander to them. Yes, Dubya’s campaign made religious appeals, probably because…GASP!…he is a religious man and doesn’t try to hide it.

   Other pundits have spent almost eight years deriding George Bush because he admits to praying while slurring evangelicals and churchgoer’s as a mob of superstitious hicks. Now of course we all need to embrace the latent religiosity of the left even though we know its just a facade.

   Sorry but this is hypocritical just as is the disappearance of the left’s 2004 demand that only a combat veteran should be allowed to be POTUS during a time of war.

9. Auster writes
   May 13th, 2008 12:39 pm

   I think that the grief that Huckabee encountered arose not from his fundamentalist faith, but more from the fact that he arguably ‘hid’ a cross in an otherwise secular commercial. The ad therefore became notable because of the belief that it contained a hidden shout-out to evangelicals. It was not controversial that Huckabee had a religious message - that was clear from the start.

10. Mary in LA writes
    May 13th, 2008 12:53 pm

    Jajo wrote:

    Other pundits have spent almost eight years deriding George Bush because he admits to praying while slurring evangelicals and churchgoer’s as a mob of superstitious hicks.

    Did you mean to say “Other pundits have spent almost eight years deriding George Bush because he admits to praying[,] while [the pundits have been] slurring evangelicals and churchgoers as a mob of superstitious hicks”?

    If I got your meaning right, I agree, but the way you structured your sentence makes it look as if GWB admits to “praying while slurring [evangelicals, etc.] …” , kinda like “driving while drinking.” Yes, I am one of those Internet grammar geeks.

    Sorry but this is hypocritical just as is the disappearance of the left’s 2004 demand that only a combat veteran should be allowed to be POTUS during a time of war.

    Too right, my friend! Funny, we’re not hearing anything about “chickenhawks” any more, are we?

11. Pom Taine writes
    May 13th, 2008 7:22 pm

    Rove organized fundraising and voter turnout through a network of evangelical ministers and their congregations in 2006. In fact, there was a federal investigation of their fundraising tactics through a false-front Christian non profit organization.

    I second Tom Paine’s demand that there be a full federal investigation of Obama and every church he’s visited while campaigning — preferably one that’s highly publicized with sinister insinuations even if no evidence of wrongdoing is found.

    That *was* the double-standard you were referring to, right, Tom — the one where Republicans who go to church trigger federal investiagations, while Democrats trigger whiny apologists on blog sites.

12. Pablo writes
    May 14th, 2008 7:14 am

    I think that the grief that Huckabee encountered arose not from his fundamentalist faith, but more from the fact that he arguably ‘hid’ a cross in an otherwise secular commercial.

    That ad was not secular. It was a Merry Christmas ad with the line “What really matters is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ” and closed with “God bless and Merry Christmas”.

    It always struck me as silly that it was portrayed as sneaking in a Christian message when Huckabee was blatantly, obviously delivering a Christian message. That’s like hiding a bible in church, or a cocktail in a bar.

13. Fundit writes
    May 14th, 2008 8:47 am

    Americans are getting too smart to let the bickering among Christians sway their vote. Like Jesus said somewhere, actions speak louder than words. Obama has done nothing to the contrary and it’s just that simple. It will be nice when folks move on to more important issues as GWB’s faith hasn’t made a lick of difference in the last 7 years and neither will McSame’s, Obama’s or Hillary’s.

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